Prerequisites: CIS 274 with a minimum grade of 2.5 or equivalent experience.
Schedule: Check The Annual Schedule
Instructor: Steve Hailey

This course is part of both the Information Security Degree and Network Security Certificate.

In this course you will learn how to properly read and interpret packets and packet headers including IP, TCP, ICMP, and UDP, and will learn how to distinguish between normal, abnormal, and malicious traffic. You will also create and respond to attacks such as Smurf, Tribe Flood Network, Stacheldracht, and Targa among others. You will see how man-in-the-middle attacks are perpetrated, and how to prevent them. You will see how hackers bring down routers and switches, and will learn how to protect network infrastructures as well as properly setup and maintain an Intrusion Detection System.

This class is suitable for anyone in an information technology related field that wants to to take their troubleshooting and incident response skills to a new level, or needs to better understand the forensic value of performing packet analysis. Portions of this class have been instructed for law enforcement personnel needing to perform forensic analysis of packet captures and network traffic.

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